Cardamine consists of herbaceous perennials characterized by their straightforward, palmately or pinnately divided foliage. In spring or summer, they produce short racemes bearing flowers with four petals, which can be white, yellow, pink, or purplish in hue.

Cardamine

Cardamine aff. diphylla

Cardamine alba

Cardamine amara

Cardamine angustata

Cardamine asarifolia L.

Cardamine bellidifolia

Cardamine bellidifolia subsp. alpina

Cardamine bipinnata

This perennial plant reaches a height of approximately 60cm and features fleshy rhizomes. Its foliage consists of vibrant green leaves that are divided into narrow, serrated leaflets. At the base of the upper stem leaves, it produces deep purple bulbils. In spring, the plant showcases small clusters of pale purple flowers, each with four petals.

Cardamine bulbifera

Cardamine bulbosa

Cardamine californica

Cardamine carnosa

Cardamine chenopodiifolia

Cardamine concatenata

Cardamine concatenata 'Fine Lace'

Cardamine corymbosa

Cardamine digitata

Cardamine diphylla

Cardamine diphylla 'American Sweetheart'

This perennial features spreading rhizomes and mid-green leaves with a three-lobed shape and serrated edges. In late spring, clusters of fragrant white flowers emerge, rising above the foliage.

Cardamine diphylla 'Eco Cut Leaf'

Cardamine diphylla 'Eco Moonlight'

Cardamine douglasii

Cardamine enneaphyllos is a perennial plant that thrives in shady environments, growing from rhizomatous roots. In spring, it produces mid-green foliage, featuring divided leaves with four to six serrated leaflets. This is followed by nodding flowers that are either white or pale yellow, rising above the leaves.

Cardamine enneaphyllos

Cardamine flexuosa is a rapidly developing annual or biennial plant characterized by its compound leaves and petite white flowers that emerge on undulating stems. This species typically thrives in moist, shaded areas, reaching heights of up to 50 cm, though in cultivated settings, it often remains smaller.

Cardamine flexuosa

Cardamine franchetiana

Cardamine glanduligera is a deciduous perennial that thrives in shaded areas. It features mid-green, deeply divided leaves with serrated edges. In the spring, it produces nodding flowers that display a purple-blue hue, rising above the foliage.

Cardamine glanduligera

Cardamine glauca

Cardamine graeca

Cardamine granulifera

Cardamine griffithii

Cardamine heptaphylla is a herbaceous perennial that reaches approximately 45 cm in height, creating spreading clumps through its fleshy rhizomes. The leaves are divided and have serrated edges, and they are adorned with clusters of white, four-petaled flowers that emerge from mid to late spring.

Cardamine heptaphylla

Cardamine heptaphylla 'Big White'

Cardamine heptaphylla 'Cally Big White'

Cardamine heptaphylla 'Helen Myers'

Cardamine heptaphylla Guincho form

Cardamine heptaphylla from the Pyrenees

Cardamine heptaphylla white-flowered

Cardamine hirsuta is a common hardy annual known for its ability to self-seed prolifically in garden settings, frequently emerging in response to soil disturbance or in pots used for propagation. This plant can generate multiple generations within a single growing season. In spring, summer, autumn, and during mild winters, it produces small white flowers on slender stems that rise above a basal rosette of deeply lobed pinnate leaves. After flowering, it develops explosive seed pods that release a large number of seeds into the environment. Additionally, it can be cultivated as a salad green.

Cardamine hirsuta

Cardamine impatiens

Cardamine kitaibelii is a low-growing, herbaceous perennial that typically reaches a height of around 30 cm. It features fleshy rhizomes and leaves that are divided and arranged in whorls, emerging in a bronze hue during late winter or early spring. In early to mid-spring, small clusters of four-petaled flowers bloom, ranging in color from white to pale yellow.

Cardamine kitaibelii

Cardamine lineariloba

Cardamine lyrata

Cardamine macrocarpa

Cardamine macrophylla is a perennial plant that forms clumps and can reach a height of approximately 90 cm. Its leaves, which can grow up to 25 cm in length, are composed of toothed, pointed leaflets. In early summer, the plant produces upright stems that hold dense clusters of flowers at their tips. These blooms range in color from pale pink to purple and measure up to 1 cm in length.

Cardamine macrophylla

Cardamine macrophylla 'Bright and Bronzy'

Cardamine macrophylla purple-leaved

Cardamine maritima

Cardamine maxima

Cardamine microphylla

Cardamine nemorosa 'Plena' (d)

Cardamine nipponica

Cardamine nuttallii var. gemmata

Cardamine pachystigma

Cardamine parviflora

Cardamine pentaphyllos is a herbaceous perennial that develops a clump of finely divided, pinnate foliage. In spring and early summer, it produces upright stems topped with short racemes that feature pale purple or white blooms.

Cardamine pentaphyllos

Cardamine pentaphyllos 'Alba'

Cardamine pentaphyllos bright pink-flowered

Cardamine pratensis is a perennial plant that typically reaches heights of up to 45 cm. It produces a basal rosette of pinnate leaves, which can measure up to 15 cm in length and exhibit a grey-green to glossy dark green coloration, featuring rounded leaflets. In late spring, this species develops erect stems adorned with short racemes that display 4-petalled flowers, measuring approximately 1.5 cm in diameter, in shades of pale pink or white.

Cardamine pratensis

Cardamine pratensis 'Diane's Petticoat'

Cardamine pratensis 'Edith' (d)

This low-growing, clump-forming perennial reaches a height of up to 20 cm. It generates numerous grey-green leaves that cluster at the base, and in late spring, it produces panicles filled with double lilac-pink blooms.

Cardamine pratensis 'Flore Pleno' (d)

Cardamine pratensis 'Flore Pleno' white-flowered (d)

Cardamine pratensis 'Improperly Dressed'

Cardamine pratensis 'Pink Giant'

Cardamine pratensis 'Salzach'

Cardamine pratensis 'William' (d)

Cardamine pratensis subsp. paludosa

Cardamine pratensis var. angustifolia

Cardamine pratensis white-flowered

Cardamine quinquefolia is a herbaceous perennial that can reach heights of up to 30 cm. It features five-lobed green foliage and produces clusters of numerous pink-lilac blooms starting in early spring. The leaves will wither by early summer, but the plant offers effective ground cover during its active growth period.

Cardamine quinquefolia

Cardamine raphanifolia is a robust perennial that spreads through thick rhizomes. During early summer, it showcases clusters of four-petalled flowers that can be lilac-pink or white, rising on slender stems above a dense mat of dark green, pinnate foliage.

Cardamine raphanifolia

Cardamine resedifolia

Cardamine rockii

Cardamine rotundifolia

Cardamine trifolia is a low-growing perennial characterized by its dark green, three-lobed foliage. During late spring, this plant sends up clusters of white, cup-shaped blossoms atop stems reaching about 15 cm in height.

Cardamine trifolia

Cardamine triphylla

Cardamine uliginosa

Cardamine urbaniana

Cardamine violacea

Cardamine waldsteinii is a spreading perennial that flourishes in shaded areas with soil that retains moisture. In the spring, it bears loose clusters of white flowers featuring four petals, which rise on slender stems above a dense layer of mid-green, three-lobed foliage.